Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 21, 1931
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
1981-09-15
Overview: This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-15
Popularity:
2001-10-12
Overview: Bartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic hit-and-run death. A community's pain reverberates through fractured relationships and the burden of funereal responsibility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
Popularity:
1984-03-26
Overview: The year 1943. The Second World War is on. A group of partisans, which includes, among others, the young poet Gonczar, his friend Włodek and Zosia, are ordered to blow up a railway bridge during a military transport crossing. The task is completed, but with great losses.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-26
Popularity:
1979-06-18
Overview: World War II. Lieutenant Bogdan Mayer is tasked with delivering a sample of valuable metal alloy from Warsaw to London.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-18
Popularity:
1983-07-15
Overview: The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-07-15
Popularity:
1987-03-01
Overview: The 17th century, the reign of King Władysław IV. The half-siblings of Stanisław and Anna Oświęcim have been linked by love since childhood. During the feast, a conflict arises between Stanisław and Zebrzydowski, Anna's competitor. Stanisław is wounded in a duel. Anna bandages him in her room. There is a rapprochement between them. Stanisław leaves for the Vatican to obtain a dispensation from the Pope for a wedding with Anna. Meanwhile, Anna repents, misses, prays and refuses to eat. Not a single word is spoken in the movie. The mood is built by Karłowicz's music.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-03-01
Popularity:
1980-09-01
Overview: September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-09-01
Popularity:
1983-10-24
Overview: Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the conservatory, where he made friends with Paweł, an undisciplined but very talented composer. Paweł's works gain publicity abroad, but he himself, unable to bear human envy and accept the loss of his beloved girl, commits suicide ... Jan's father dies, and soon his mother ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-10-24
Popularity:
1985-06-03
Overview: Józef comes to his hometown on the anniversary of the murder of his father - a peasant activist, and explores the circumstances of his death.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-06-03
Popularity:
1985-01-07
Overview: From the popular series of Polish books by Kornel Makuszynski comes this charming comedy following the misadventures of Ewa, who tries to right the wrongs of this less-than-perfect world.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-07
Popularity:
1979-11-13
Overview: A ruminative, understated drama on the nature of overwork versus an "unachieving" life away from the city, Pelnia examines the experience of one man. After leaving his high-pressured existence as a successful architect, the newly resolved dropout goes to live in a small community of cabins and summer homes in a lake-filled region north of Warsaw. His interactions with the villagers, including a drunkard and other eccentrics, provide an informative background for what happens next. The ex-architect's wife is a professional singer who has not abandoned the city or her life -- and she soon arrives to spend some time with her very changed husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-11-13
Popularity:
1999-12-24
Overview: A TV movie based on the television series "Złotopolscy", concerning a Christmas Eve for the familes of Złotopolscy.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-24
Popularity:
1981-05-18
Overview: A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-05-18
Popularity:
1993-11-19
Overview: Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-11-19
Popularity:
1992-05-13
Overview: The film is a continuation of the 1984 film I died to live. Leopold Wójcik, faking his own death, returns to the underground. Unlike the previous part, the fate of the heroes is a fiction - a variant of events that could have taken place. The film had a sequel: Born for the Third Time (1989).
Genres: War TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-05-13
Popularity:
1972-07-22
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-07-22
Popularity:
1966-04-03
Overview: A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-03
Popularity:
1999-06-18
Overview: A literary critic's quest for love takes a hopeful turn when he runs into a woman from his past, but their turbulent quirks strain their new romance.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-06-18
Popularity:
1972-01-04
Overview: Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michał witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were employed as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.
Genres: War Drama Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1972-01-04
Popularity:
1976-06-14
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-06-14
Popularity:
1990-01-26
Overview: Michał, a mature man and father, is full of bitterness, regret, and longing for unfulfilled youthful dreams of true love. He reminisces about all his past lovers. With his first, Asia, he went on a seaside camping trip. He was 19 at the time, and she was two years younger. Despite his unambiguous advances, the girl resisted for a long time. Eventually, however, she gave in. For Michał, it was the proverbial pebble that caused an avalanche.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1990-01-26
Popularity:
1979-03-04
Overview: The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-03-04
Popularity:
1987-08-28
Overview: The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out garbage, annoying neighbours, rides in elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell he imposes on himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-08-28
Popularity:
1984-08-05
Overview: Marta comes to Lublin as a captain of the Polish Army. She is looking for information about her son - Stefan, whom she last saw years ago, when she went with her husband to fighting Spain.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-08-05
Popularity:
1982-04-26
Overview: After many years, director Bryła reveals hidden family secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-04-26
Popularity:
1977-09-11
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1977-09-11
Popularity:
1988-09-11
Overview: An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-11
Popularity:
1993-01-21
Overview: Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-01-21
Popularity:
1971-05-27
Overview: An actor visits his father in a nursing home to study his mannerisms in preparations for the role of Faust.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-05-27
Popularity:
1982-09-13
Overview: Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1982-09-13
Popularity:
1983-09-12
Overview: A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not life, but torment, horror. - wrote Anton Chekhov in one of his letters summarizing "An Uninteresting Story". The protagonist, Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, is a character characteristic of Chekhov's entire oeuvre - a Russian intellectual from the late nineteenth century, depressed by boredom and a sense of his own uselessness and the meaninglessness of his existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-09-12
Popularity:
1990-08-03
Overview: When the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1990-08-03
Popularity:
2001-01-26
Overview: Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the elderly.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2001-01-26
Popularity:
1993-08-20
Overview: A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agatha falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in the government and police to brutally break their happiness.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1993-08-20
Popularity:
1976-01-26
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-26
Popularity:
1966-04-18
Overview: Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1966-04-18
Popularity:
1971-09-24
Overview: This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned home to help his father and sister. Both the aristocratic family he fled in shame and scorn, and their dilapidated country estate, bathed in an oppressively nostalgic light, prove ultimately inescapable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-09-24
Popularity:
2017-06-22
Overview: Unbearable heat. A young boy is doing to his friend unusual favor - pretended to be him, visited his grandmother who has senile. A woman takes him for a walk to a place that evokes memories and she tell him about the biggest mystery of her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2017-06-22
Popularity:
1984-10-10
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-10-10
Popularity:
1971-12-21
Overview: After his parents go away in the mountains, young Fortunato Falcone decides to shelter a fugitive for a price of a silver coin.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-12-21
Popularity:
1980-11-13
Overview: Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie Horror
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1980-11-13
Popularity:
1968-02-16
Overview: A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-02-16
Popularity:
1981-08-10
Overview: The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-08-10
Popularity:
1986-10-13
Overview: A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-10-13
Popularity:
1984-03-09
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-03-09
Popularity:
1994-04-21
Overview: A young lady from a good home, full of life, wins the hearts of the greatest gloomy people and turns people into people open to the world. He infects everyone with kindness and optimism, even when misfortunes fall on the family. Resolute and resourceful, she takes matters into her own hands, but will fate be favorable to her and happiness will smile at her?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-04-21
Popularity:
1988-08-15
Overview: Following the emotions associated with entrance examinations to the faculty of pedagogy, Catherine Solska returns to his native village. And here she will surprise - the family without their knowledge to begin preparations for engagement with a rich neighbor Kolasa. Girl falls into despair, tries to oppose the decision of the parents, but is closed in his room. On visits to her fiance and flees out the window calling mail to the university. Receives misleading information and is convinced that was not accepted to college. Resigned returns home and agrees to the wedding. Meanwhile, on the eve of the wedding the postman brings the notice of acceptance to the university.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-08-15
Popularity:
1984-09-08
Overview: Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.
Genres: War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1984-09-08
Popularity:
1989-02-20
Overview: An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-02-20
Popularity: